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Complete list of Radio 4 book club books from 1998-2008

Posted by Book Group Librarian in September 25th, 2008  
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This is a fantastic list.  I currently own 40 of these excellent titles.  Enjoy!
1998

3.5.98 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
7.6.98 Beloved - Toni Morrison
5.7.98 Fatherland - Robert Harris
2.8.98 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
6.9.98 Wild Swans - Jung Chang
4.10.98 Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
1.11.98 [...]

The Booker Prize of Booker Prizes

Posted by Book Group Librarian in July 10th, 2008  
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Sir Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children has won the Best of the Booker prize, as voted for by the public.
The 1981 book beat five other former Booker winners shortlisted from the prize’s 40-year history.
BEST OF BOOKER NOMINEES
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (won in 1981; also the previous winner of the Booker Of Bookers, in 1993)
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The best of Booker

Posted by Book Group Librarian in May 13th, 2008  
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Titles by Pat Barker, Peter Carey, Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer, J G Farrell and J M Coetzee are the six books deemed Best of the Booker.
The one-off award marks the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize, and the shortlist was selected by a panel of judges, novelist and critic Victoria Glendinning, writer and broadcaster Mariella [...]

AbeBooks conduct own best of booker poll with surprising results

Posted by Book Group Librarian in May 9th, 2008  
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From the bookseller:
Yann Martel’s Life of Pi is the favourite Booker Prize winner of all time, according to a survey conducted by Abe Books ahead of this year’s official Best of the Booker award.
AbeBooks.co.uk asked 727 of its customers to name the best of the past winners and Martel’s novel – the Man Booker winner [...]

Man Booker Prize - the longlist

Posted by Book Group Librarian in August 30th, 2006  
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The following books have all made it to the longlist for the Booker Prize this year.
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel by Kiran Desai
Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
Get a Life: A Novel by Nadine Gordimer
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland
Seven Lies: A [...]